2017 Winter Project Week/SimplePowerfulBeautifulMedicalVisualizerWithAMI

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Key Investigators

  • Jorge Luis Bernal Rusiel, Boston Children's Hospital
  • Nicolas Rannou, Eunate Technology S.L.
  • Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children's Hospital

Project Description

Many tools and libraries exist to build powerful web medical visualizers but the learning curve can be steep for new comers. This project aims to provide simple interfaces for AMI [1].

Simple JS interface

A simple Javascript XTK-like [2] API

Web components

A collection of web components [3] (via Polymer [4]) will be designed and implemented.

Why Polymer? (and not React [5] or Angular [6]) Because it is meant to disappear! Polymer just add very little 'sugar' on top of the web standards. It mostly adds support for some features that are not available on simple platforms yet. Ultimatly all browser vendors will implement all the standards and the Polymer library that aims to poly-fill all the gaps will disappear. Accessibility is very important too: one can use web components for its app no matter which framework is used. Using React/Angular elements from another framework is not necessarily possible.

Objective Approach and Plan Progress and Next Steps
  • Design/Implement XTK like API for AMI
  • Define/Design/Implement AMI-based web components for medical imaging
  • Implement Lesson 10 and 14 from XTK with new JS API
  • Build Slicer/Slicedrop/Cornerstone like viewer leveraging web components
  • Write helpers functions in AMI to hide low-level JS implementation details
  • Mockup basic quad-view to define most web components
  • Implement web components

Background and References